RIP: the Wonder Stuff's drummer

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Former The Wonder Stuff drummer Martin Gilks has been killed in a road accident, the band's record label said today.

Mr Gilks was riding the motorbike along with a female passenger at around 7.30pm on Sunday when they were involved in a collision in Putney.
The Wonder Stuff formed in 1986 and were one of the UK's biggest bands in the early 1990s - having the chart-topping single Dizzy with Vic Reeves and three top ten albums.
The group split in 1994, reformed briefly in 2000 for live gigs then emerged again in 2004 with a new lineup, minus Mr Gilks and guitarist Martin Bell.

A spokesman for IRL records said: "Martin has died after a car crash I'm afraid to say."

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Do you want me to move this over to ILM?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

We already have Marc Bolan's shrine - I guess there'll be another one soon :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

this really re-opens the old question re 'what is the least famous you have to be as a musician/pop star before you DON'T get an ILM RIP thread?'

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Terrible band but a shame nonetheless

― Danaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Why's it always drummers?

(~~Why's it always drummers in shit bands?~~ edited in the interests of taste)

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

google soich

wunder stuff
feeder
lush
echo und zer bunnymen
fat cunt in led zeppelin

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

should be a best of out soon then.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Best Of Fat Dead Cunts?

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

lol he should have crashed his car into a cow

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

into the side of a cow.

Delete all that, I'm sorry.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

new ep, "size if a dead cow and drummer"

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

A spokesman for IRL records said: "Martin has died after a car crash I'm afraid to say."

Ah never mind, ay?

(What happened to his girlfriend?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

bugger! i meant of.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

(What happened to his girlfriend?)

He was the drummer in the Wonder Stuff.

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Mr Gilks was riding the motorbike along with a female passenger at around 7.30pm on Sunday when they were involved in a collision in Putney.

she obviously wasn't famous enough to get reported on.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I quite like the Wonder Stuff, in a way.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

You missed out Def Leppard

― Nadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Rick Allen = Not Indie, Not Dead

― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Not dead, but how would you like to have one fucking arm?

― Nadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'd rather have one arm than be the drummer in the Wonder Stuff.

― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Wait till this one shows up on google.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I somehow imagine Pashmina saying that in a Groucho Marx voice

― Nadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

's okay Pash, one-armed typists are half as irate by definition.

― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

If he joins up with Zac Foley we're halfway towards a crap early-'90s indie supergroup in the afterlife.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Also the man responsible for bringing us Reef and 'A', according to a Wonder Stuff fansite I just found.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Turning this into a celebration is cruel.

― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Also, I'm guessing that whoever wrote the report on the NME website copy 'n' pasted it from the BBC's website. The opening line is exactly the same.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Gilks was part of the Wonder Stuff's "successful" 1990s line-up

― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

So how many #1 singles have you played on, noodle?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

HOLY SH*T! And the "Shooting Stars" episode of "Comedy Connections" was on only LAST NIGHT featuring several clips of Vic Reeves singing with The Wonder Stuff.

Someone at the BBC is either psychic or a killer...

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

"So how many #1 singles have you played on, noodle?"

If he's called "noodle" then I can think of at least one No.1 he could have played on :)

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

you people with your cow jokes are really missing a trick when the b-side of this:

http://www.room512.com/images/unbearable2.jpg

was called HIT BY A CAR!

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

I interviewed Martin on college radio in 1991 or so. Super nice guy. :(

― Do-ppler ray-Nut (donut), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

i still love ten trenches deep.

and much of the 4th album.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

that's weird, i thought he'd died years ago. seriously. o well. RIP.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

that's weird, i thought he'd died years ago. seriously.

You might be thinking of Rob the Bass Thing, who did indeed pass on back in the early nineties.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

ah! yes, that'll be it. wow. THE CURSE OF THE WONDER STUFF. or something.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Noodle, may I ask why you've been such a wanker on this thread? the man's dead for crying out loud

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I was just about to come and apologise. I was a cunt. I'm a mean drunk, apparently.

― A Van That's Loaded With Mushy Peas (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

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